Walking the halls plastered with people Kotaro didn’t know, strangers were laughing, he didn’t know why. All he could think was what he was doing here, he should be somewhere else, training under the sun with his newfound Earth Magic.

And yet here he was. Awkwardly sitting in right in the middle of the classroom. Almost half of the kid in this classroom had known each other from the kindergarten, while the other half knew each other because their parent was a friend.

After all, for what purpose do I need to go to school every morning? To study? Or because Grandpa said it is compulsory? ... By the way, what is compulsory mean? 

...I'm bored. Kotaro thought after he made a big yawn. ... If this goes on I will not have any friend, right?! After that, I'll spend the rest of my life alone and die alone?!

No, no, no. Thinking like that, Kotaro shook his head wildly. Yeah... let's join their conversation!

After 4 minutes of eavesdropping to the others conversation. It was useless.

For starters, every kid already had their own groups. Most of the boys were talking about Sunday morning superhero show, if not, a video game or manga. While most of the girls were talking about clothing or about their vacation.

Haaah... If I'm not wrong. Shinichi-nii said in this kind of situation I should pretend to fall asleep until someone comes to talk to me.

Remembering Shinichi suggestion, Kotaro started to put his head onto his desk and slowly closing his eyes.

Though... rather than pretending, it didn't take long for him to fall asleep for real. 

"Look! Look!" Said the girl that was sitting next to Kotaro as she showed the other girls her colourful star-shaped nail stickers.

"Kya~ You put stickers on them!" Shouted another girl.

"My big sister did it for me!" Said the nail-stickers girl.

"Good morning!! What? What? Waaa~ That's so cute! I want some too!" Said the girl that just joining with their conversation.

And it didn't take long for his sleep to be disturbed either.

"Hmph! I bet it's gonna fall out if you wash your hand." Said one of the boys from that sat behind Kotaro.

Another boy instantly leapt from his chair and instantly took one of the girl nail stickers and putting it on his forehead. "Look! I have a tattoo!"

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"Hey! Give it back!" Shouted one of the girls. 

And out of sudden Kotaro awoke without any warning, his eyes flung so wide each iris was a perfect orb of dark chocolate. After a second, his head turned toward the boy like some Halloween dummy. "...Knock it off. Can you pay her back for that sticker?"

"U-urgh... P-pay?" Said the boy with a sticker on his forehead as his face turned pale.

Realizing he didn't have any money, that the boy with a sticker on his forehead instantly removed the sticker from his forehead and sticking it to the girl shirt. "Here! I give it back!" Said The boy.

 "I don't want it anymore!" Said the nail-stickers girl.

But, even though Kotaro didn't mean it. A notification rung inside his head.

Hey!! Listen! Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey! Look at your status!!! You get a new skill 'Intimidate Lvl 1!'

And just before the tension between them rose up, the thick glasses teacher already entered the classroom and said his greetings to the children.

"I will be your class' homeroom teacher, Yamada. I look forward to guiding you through your first year of school. And since this is the start of a new class, let's all go around the room introducing ourselves."

"I'm Katou Tomoko. My hobby is reading (manga.)"

The other kids always cheered and teased as they heard the introduction. 

Sometimes, Kotaro noticed, the kids shouted out and laughed at once, but at others, it took a little while for them to do it. "Asuma Kuroki" the black spiky-haired boy in front of Kotaro, stood for a few seconds before the others made their reaction.

There weren't many people left now. One by one they introduced themselves, even though almost three-quarter of them already knew each other. Then, it was the nail-sticker girl was waving merrily at Kotaro before she stood up."Yes! My name's Yui Tainaka! My dream is to become a good wife!"

And at last, it was Kotaro's turn.

Introduction huh... If I'm not wrong, Shinichi-nii told me to say. "I'm Kotaro Mikami, it's nice to meet you. Ah, by the way. I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was!"

.....It was total silence like no silence ever was.

"All right. That was a very good introduction. Now then, it's a little bit too early, but let's open your language book." Said the teacher by the time every kid had already done with their introduction.

A few hours later after surviving numerous lesson of language, math and life studies. And then it was time for School Lunch!!

Kotaro and Gina only heard it from the older kids, but from what they heard, the school lunch was a hundred times better than Grandpa's cooking. And it was half true.

Compared to Grandpa's almost melted vegetables, what the school offered was bread, marinated chicken and egg, milk, apple, and vegetable soup, which was a hundred times worse than Grandpa's soup.

By the time school was over, supposedly Kotaro had a secret meeting at the mountain behind his school. But as soon as Kotaro walked out from his class Gina already waiting for him while her face was facing to the floor.

"I...*Sob* Can't.... make.... friends..." Gina muttered in a low voice.

"...Sorry? What do you say?"

" *Sob* There are 31 students in my class... *sob* 30 in your class and another 30 in class 3 *sob* That's 91 in total, Including me! I can't make 100 friends with only 90 people!" Shouted Gina as tears and snot falling down from her cheeks.